This week we will look back on ^HousingFutures’ articles of 2017. One of our main topics was migration, here is our retrospective. The difference between the Global North (or better: ‘the West’) and the Global South remains incredibly big. While in the Global North countries are relatively stable, people are relatively rich and healthy and… Read More ^HousingFutures’ 2017: Migration
2017 has been an important year for public, social and affordable housing around the world. Global trends like climate change, increasing inequality, emerging migration and political instability have had direct effect on the way people live -and in particular on those with little to spend. ‘Pressure’ appeared to be the keyword for affordable housing providers around… Read More ^HousingFutures’ 2017: Under pressure
Everyone working in on social housing will recognize that despite all good intentions and efforts of politicians, activists and even market parties, realization and maintaining of a decent social housing stock is extremely tough. The sector has the stigma of money consuming (and spoiling) real estate projects with vague incentives. And once in use the… Read More 3 things we learned at the International Social Housing Festival
Last Saturday, somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000 refugees arrived in Munich in one single day. The large number puts a punctuation point on what is quickly becoming a race against time to find, build and provide enough housing for the new arrivals especially before winter comes. The German government decided last week to commit… Read More Social Housing’s role in the German Refugee Crisis
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